Dan Pfeiffer

As you point out, I think there are some takeaways from this.

It's not surprising that Janet Mills dropped out because she clearly was losing by a lot and was out of money.

She had stopped running TV ads.

They'd even stopped running the Facebook ads you run to raise money.

So you are really out of money when that happens.

But it is, if you take a step back, the idea that the two-term incumbent governor of the state endorsed by the DSCC and endorsed by Chuck Schumer

has to drop out a month before the election is sort of a, like, that seems, that's shocking, right?

Sign of the times.

But you're right, it is a sign of the times.

It is like, Janet Mills is 78 years old.

She will be 85 at the end of her first term.

She said she was only going to serve one term.

Now, Janet Mills is not Joe Biden.

I interviewed Janet Mills.

She seemed nothing like Joe Biden, certainly the Joe Biden on that debate stage.

But she was paying a price for Joe Biden.

Right.

Just a in a Democratic establishment, a 78 year old establishment politician endorsed by the same establishment politicians who told everyone that Joe Biden was good to go.

It's like that's too much of a burden for someone to overcome in a post Trump and a Trump Biden era.

Right.